The group met once each month at the home of its president. Keep reading for an excerpt of A Well-Behaved Woman.Īlva decided to attend a meeting of the Society for the Betterment of Working Children, which Armide had joined not long before. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules-and how to break them. In A Well-Behaved Woman, with a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women’s suffrage movement. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. Home » Historical Figures » Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts Posted on Novemby Therese Anne FowlerĪlva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts.
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